Decorative display form



` DECORATIVE DISPLAY FORM A. G. ANDERSON 2,142,549

Filed Dc. 30, 1957 @awww n Y l ius; W6:

Patented Jan. 3, 1939 f" UNITED STATES PATENT ori-"ics DECORATIVE DISPLAY FORM Alvin G. Anderson, Framingham, Mass., assignor to Dennison Manufacturing Company, Framingham, Mass., a corporation of Massachusetts Application December 30, 1937, Serial No. 182,543 2 Claims. (Cl.4 I0-126) For store window advertising and other pur- Fig. 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1; poses it is customary to employ display forms Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 1; and of various sizes and shapes and to change the Fig. 4 is a cross section of the form bent into the forms at frequent intervals. Heretofore the shape of a reversed curve. 5 usualpractice has been to construct such forms The particular embodiment of the invention 5 oi Wood or other expensive material and to dischosen for the purpose of illustration comprises a card them after short usage. corrugated sheet I having facing sheets 2 and 3 Objects of the present invention are to procemented to the crests of the corrugations onl duce decorative forms for advertising and other opposite sides of the corrugated sheet. The corlo purposes which are attractive in appearance and rugated sheet I and the facing sheet 2 have ob- 10 inexpensive in construction, which are light in lique slits 4 extending therethrough substan` weight, which can be shipped and stored in comtially to the inside of the facing sheet 3, termipact form, which are adaptable to a wide variety nating at 5. of shapes, which can be used repeatedly in diifer- While the dimensions may of course be varied, l5 ent shapes and arrangements, and which are depending upon the use to which the forms arel generally superior to display forms heretofore to be put and the composition of the sheets, when known. using paper sheets for window display forms I In one aspect this invention involves a form have found the following dimensions to be highly comprising a sheet of corrugated material, such satisfactory.

as ordinary pulp board, with a facing sheet of Inch 20 cardboard or the like cemented to the crests of Thickness of uncut facing sheet, including the corrugations on one side of the corrugated outside decorative coating .032 sheet and preferably on each side. To make the Thickness of cut facing sheet .030 form bendable to the desired shape I provide a Thickness of corrugated sheet .015

series of slits or cuts which extend transversely Space between facing sheets .165 25 of the corrugations from one side of the form Total thickness of form .227 substantially to the inside of the facing sheet on Distance between crests of corrugations .350 the opposite side of the form, with the portions of Distance between cuts .500

the corrugated sheet between the oblique cuts By virtue of the oblique slits 4 the form may be gmou tsanlasg bent transversely of the corrugations in either 30 clits are visible merel as thin llines on one side of direction although the resistance to bendmg 1S the form or it may sbe bent transversely oi the greater when the sheet is bent 1.30 make the slit corrugations to the desired shape, the cuts prefie vsde trllhhgleslplelll erably being close enough together to afford any as Shown at the ends of Fig L The bending of 35 2?; g vaityufths'faeougrf the sheet in the direction to make the slit side allqd the mefmbhgau incline in the same direc concave is facilitated by the slits partly because tion Esi'ther or both of the facing sheets may be the abutting edges of the cut sheets at the slits slide over each other to a slight extent and partly 40 pamted or Otherwlse decorated' because these edges are compacted by the com- 40 In another aspect the invention involves the method of making a display form which compresswe forge' Thus the sheet cal? be bent m prises Cement-mg a facing sheet to the Crests of either direction into-a smooth continuous curve the corrugations on one or each side of a corru- Wlthout the usual tendency to break at one or gated sheet, forming in the form a series of closely more 10031510115 along the Curve 45 erstood that the present disspaced oblique slits which extend transversely of 1t ShOllld be und C the corrugations from one side of the form sub- ClOSuIe 1S OI the PUIPOSG 0f llluStratlOn Only and stantially to the inside of the facing sheet on the that this invention includes all modications and other side of the form and then bending the form equivalents which fall within the scope of the transversely of the corrugations to the desired appended claims. 50

shape. I claim:

FOI the DHIDOSB 0f illustration a typical em- 1. A paper sheet adapted for use in making bodiment of the invention is shown in the accomdecorative dispmy forms comprising a sheet of panying drawing in which, corrugated material and a facing sheet fast to one Fg- 1 '1S a plan View 0f a at fOlm; side thereof, the corrugated sheet having a series 55 of juxtaposed oblique slits extending transversely of the corrugations substantially to the inside of the facing sheet and all of the slits inelining in the same direction relatively to the faces of the 5 sheets, said facing sheet being continuous and uninterrupted.

2. A paper sheet adapted for use in making decorative display forms comprising a sheet of corrugated material and a facing sheet fast to each side thereof, one facing sheet and the corrugated sheet having a series of juxtaposed oblique slits extending transversely of the corrugations substantially to the inside of the other facing sheet, the other facing sheet being continuous and uninterrupted, and all of the slits inclining in the same direction relatively to the faces of the sheets.

ALVIN G. ANDERSON. 

